Picture-cabinet.



PATENTED OCT. 25, 1904.

0. WOGENSTAHL. v PIGTURE CABINET. I

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 13, 190}.

NO MODEL,

nav'raoea Patented October 25, 1904.

UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

CHARLES WOGENSTAHL, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

, PICTURE-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N0. 772,992, dated October 25, 1904. Application filed January 13, 1904. Serial No. 188,895. (N0 model-) To a, whom, it may concern;

Be it known that I, OHA'RL'Es VVosENs'rAHL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Picture- Oabinets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to picture-cabinets of the class adapted to display paintings or other pictures and protect them from being soiled;

and the objects of my improvement are to pro vide tracks on a swinging door, frames adapted to contain the'pictures and movable on the tracks in or out of the cabinet, and means to close the cabinet after the pictures are returned therein. .These objects are attained in the following-described manner, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation, with parts broken away, Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 an isometrical view, of a frame with the pictures therein and portions of its track.

In the drawings, 4; representsthe base, rectangular in form and provided with one or more drawers for the convenient storage of pictures. Cabinet 5 is mounted on the base and formed with a series of narrow vertical apartments 6 by means of parallel partitions 7. Tracks 8 depend from the top of the cabinet within the respective apartments, and open rectangular frames 11 are suspended from the tracks and are movable thereon by means of rollers 12, secured to the top of the frames.

Vertically-swinging door 13 when in ahorizontal position is movable a short distance rearwardly over the apartments in grooves 14:, formed in each side of the top of the cabi-.

net, whereby the horizontal position of the door is maintained. When the door is moved forward, trunnions l5 thereon permit the door to swing down and close the front opening of the cabinet and the otherwise closed apartments therein.

Sections of tracks 16, secured on the inside of the door, terminate a short distance from its 'top, andwhen the door is moved rearwardly in its horizontal position the rear end of each section abuts against the front end of each corresponding track 8, making a forward continuation thereof, whereon the respective frames 11 may be carried by rollers 12 forwardly'from its apartment, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, or returned therein.

Pictures 1 7 are preferably mounted in temporary binders 18 and secured within the frames that they may be displayed without injury, as shown in Fig. 3. Wires 19 on the opposite side of the frames prevent the pictures from being turned in a rearward direction therefrom. When closed within the frames, and thereby returned within the apartments, the partitions prevent excessive warping of the pictures.

Gaps 21, cut out of thefront edge of the partitions, permit access to knobs 22, secured to the front edge of the frames, whereby they may be pulled out of the apartments on the sections of track on the door.

When the door is closed, there remains sufficient space for the sections of track thereon between it and the frames.

' Having fully described my improvement, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s

mounted thereon and formed with a series of narrow vertical apartments,-a horizontal track depending in each apartment, of a series of frames each provided with rollers and mov- 1. The combination with a base, a cabinet ably depending thereby from the respective tracks, a vertically-swinging door adapted to close the front of the cabinet and a series of sections of track secured thereon and movable thereby into engagement with the respective tracks whereby they form, extensions thereof, and means to maintain said door in a horizontal position.

2. The combination with a cabinet formed with a narrow vertical apartment, a track secured therein, a frame provided with rollers whereby it movably depends from the track, of a vertically-swinging door, a section of similar track secured thereon and thereby l movable on the track and its extension wheremovable in contact With the end of said track by said frame may be moved 111 or out of the to form an outward extension thereof. apartment, substantially as specified.

3. The combination with a cabinet formed CHAS. \VOGENS'IAI Ill. 5 With a narrow vertical apartment, an over Vitnesses:

head track and a removable extension there- R. S. CARR,

of, of a frame, rollers secured thereon and KITTIE \V. SHERWOOD. 

